Extinct Wildflower Found In California

Del writes "A Berkeley graduate student found the pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat. The flower hasn't been seen for 70 years and has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County."

Comments

Creationism Argument Born

[gadlaw]

I can just see the wheels turning in the mind of Creationists about this. The flower previously believed to be extinct as well as the recent story of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker which had been thought to be extinct for some fifty years will now be used as evidence of creationism over evolution. After all, those creatures were gone weren't they? Indeed, they will argue, man does not know everything and this is evidence of god's hand in ways that are incomprehensible to science. Or something like that. I'm sure the creationist line about this will be more mind befuddling - but interesting and entertaining.

Re:Same flower?

[kurzweilfreak]

Not evolution? God must've put it back then. It's the only logical solution!